It is, and Monero tx fees are pretty low right now - but as it continues to gain adoption, fees will rise.
Cashu enables microtransactions and zaps for small amounts. Its not essential, but it can be fun, and a good way for newcomers to get a taste of freedom at trivial cost.
Yeah, its custodial (but trivially anonymised), but that just means a different threat model - its small change in a pocket, not a wallet.
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Again xmr doesn’t need anything like ecash/cashu… its point less tbh
That is the only explanation for Cashu that makes sense to me. But I worry that people will get comfortable with it and forget this, especially if it's mass adoption we are talking about.
Although an easy fix would be to hard code a limit for your total balance.
Fees will always remain relatively low on Monero because of dynamic blocksize. But I do think ecash has it's own unique benefits for a different use case like micro transactions, no public blockchain, instant and offline payments, etc
